Annecy

Beautiful weather and the cleanest lake in Europe means it was a morning cycle ride (4 miles) into Annecy, a walk around, lunch in the park, ride back, swim in the lake, beer, wine = A very good day! :-)

Oh, the photo of me holding the world's biggest thermometer is actually the water temp. just before we entered - 19c

Well, as per usual things didn't go according to plan. We arrived at the aire at Aix-les-Bains to find it was packed, so had to just drive past and find a way out of the pretty town without knocking off any Gold Wing rider. For those of you who don't know a Gold Wing is a motorcycle the size of a small country. Every one ever made was in town, but we escaped successfully and headed over to Annecy where we are now camped for a couple of days. From here we will make plans for the coming week.

Photo: Dropping down to Annecy, that lake is getting some swimmers tomorrow!

When we visit a site where the owner doesn't speak English why is it that we both sound like Del Boy when we say "Tres bon, tres bon"?

We had a busy day yesterday, we left the 'unmentionable owners' site just after 8am then racked up 120 miles visiting FOUR sites, a record. We are now down in Artemare at our last one for a few days. We are just a stones throw from Aix-les-Bains and Annecy so once we tidy up a few loose ends this morning we are heading to an aire at the A-L-B.

There's Satnav.................then there's OUR satnav!

9.30pm Wednesday 28th May

This won't get posted for a day or two but here goes anyway.

You know when you have a day at work any somebody really hacks you off? Well we've just had one! No, not the slightest problem with our work colleague/husband/wife/best friend, no no no, this is the campsite owners! If we weren't so inebriated we would pack up and go, but no point in cutting our noses off to spite our faces, so we set our alarm for 7am and hit the road as soon as the barrier lifts.  

Spot the deliberate mistrake

The last entry said we were at Lons les Sauniere in the Franche-Comte region when of course it should have been Lons LE SAUNIER in Jura! Sorry, what day is it? What month are we on?

We woke to gloriously sunny weather and as planned headed south to the campsite at Macon, we decided before we arrived that we wouldn't stay the night so after an hour's assessment we headed northeast to the next at Lons les Sauniere, in the Franche-Comte region. In two days we plan to do our last site of this batch near Aix-les-Bains (we hope you're keeping up here?) when we will take another break and maybe head over to Lake Annecy fora swim and a few days recharging the draining batteries............on us, not Rapi!

Photo - Coffee stop somewhere en route to work